[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] ia32-apt-get status?

[Michal Suchanek]

On 15 June 2011 18:59, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de> wrote:
> Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:
>
>> Hello again
>>
>> On 23 February 2011 12:04, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de> wrote:
>>> Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:
>>>> On 17 September 2010 13:54, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> wrote:

>> In the end I removed gcc-multilib because I could not get it to work
>> with ia32-apt-get.
>>
>> I use a chroot on another machine to build stuff anyway. ia32-apt is
>> only suitable for binaries. Most sources fail miserably when 32bit
>> build is attempted on 64bit system.
>
> It was never ment for cross compiling. You get a ton of other isssues
> with that other than ia32-apt-get so I never bothered with that. For

You can technically install the 32bit -dev packages but building
anything with them is challenging at best.

> compiling you should stick with a chroot or the cross compile stuff from
> emdebian. A chroot is certainly simpler there and allways works.

It does not "always work" but definitely much more often.

>
>> The current issue I am experiencing is packages for Sid and Wheezy
>> appearing unsigned in aptitude.
>>
>> This issue started after I used the aptitude update function (in the
>> curses UI). While it is somewhat expected to not work running update
>> from commandline used to fix things in the past but not anymore. I
>> tried removing all package lists, changing mirrors, and re-updating
>> but testing (for i386) and sid (for both archs) and lenny are still
>> showing unsigned. On another system using the same mirrors for amd64 I
>> do not experience issues.
>
> Can't see what could be wrong there. The log looks just fine other than
> the shear number of repositories you are mixing there. You are even
> mixing Ubuntu and Debian.

It's not really mixing in Ubuntu, those are special repositories that
just happen to be hosted on Launchpad.

I install only Mesa and Wine from those.

>
>> Update log follows. It seems the parts that are ignored cause issues
>> but why they are ignored is a mystery due to the very helpful apt
>> messages.
>
> ia32-apt-get has no idea what to do with InRelease and Index files. The
> InRelease will be the problem since that is where the signature is
> now. You need to get it back to fetching Release+Release.gpg (for which
> there is no option in apt/aptitude afaik) or patch ia32-apt-get to
> handle InRelease files

That's what I suspected as well.

>
> Personally I would update to recent Ubuntu with its full multiarch
> support or wait for Debian to catch up and live with the unsigned
> warning.
>

Running Ubuntu might be an option if they went multiach. Did not know that.

It's not like there would be much difference for the software I am running.

Thanks

Michal